Susan Hill Quotes

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• Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft…
• This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the…
• The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment,…
• I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we…
• Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has…
• Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I…
• A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential…
• There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there…
• Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans…
• I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the…
• Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was…
• A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not…
• I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen,…
• For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.
• My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above…

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